I love these crap India threads that pop up from time to time.
India has never, and at the rate it's going, will never be a real player on the world stage.
It's a parasite. Everyone knows it, but no one wants to say it.
The US needs it to keep China in check, so it will do what it has to to flatter its apparently endlessly inflated pride. But the idea that India is in the same league as China is, bluntly, laughable.
The map below is a map of NO2 pollution, and winds up being a highly accurate map of just where real economic activity takes place, as opposed to just parasitical sucking through either government subsidy or outsourcing.
Pale blue just means you got lots of people. Yellow means something is going on, but it's probably just stuff that amounts to factory transplants from the places where the real work happens.
If you get into the darker yellows and the reds and purples, well, those are the places, and the only places, with self-sustaining economies.
The list is short: the Northeast Corridor, California, Chicago, a few other places here in the US.
In Europe, London, Brussels, northern Germany, Paris, Madrid, Milan and a large arc in northern Italy around it.
In Africa, South Africa.
In Asia, Japan from Tokyo to Osaka, South Korea, northeast China, Shanghai, Hong Kong.
India? All of it is pale blue, with a very few isolated yellows. Just like South America. Like South America, it's a joke.
